In the Aliens series of movies, the soulless corporation more interested in making a profit than saving people from the xenomorphs is:
A) Cyberdyne
B) Aperture Science
C) Tyrell
D) Weyland-Yutani
E) Omni Consumer Products

In this offbeat horror-comedy, nursing-home residents Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell) and John F. Kennedy (Ossie Davis) fight off a reanimated Egyptian mummy who preys on the elderly.

In what was presumably an homage, the doctor who treated Michael Myers shares a name with the boyfriend of the victim in Psycho. Is it:
A) Sam Loomis
B) Lankester Merrin
C) Martin Brody
D) Ben Hanser
E) Seth Gecko

Which movie reveals the root of a family’s ghostly problems with this line? “You son of a bitch, you moved the cemetery but you left the bodies, didn’t you?! You son of a bitch! You left the bodies and you only moved the headstones!”

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E) It. This one was set in Derry, Maine, another of King’s often-used fictional towns.

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

B) Halley

Winchester

D) Weyland-Yutani

Bubba Ho-Tep

C) J.G. Ballard. The novel, which explores symphorophilia (car-crash sexual fetishism) was adapted into a much-maligned film by David Cronenberg.

Bubba-Ho-Tep! One of my favourite weird movies; if I had four thumbs they’d all be up. (Trivia: based on a story by Joe R Lansdale, from a terrific anthology called The King Is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem.)